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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1908
Page
7
A Hawaiian pastime shows boys sliding down steep grassy slopes on ti leaves. Describing speed control by lifting leaf stalks as a brake, the writer recounts a near miss and a few tumbles before mastering the glide, noting accidents when the leaf layer wears thin.
A two month old girl suffered a face rash and sores. doctors said eczema. After failing remedies, the family used Cuticura and within two months the child healed and has had no eczema since. Mrs. H. F. Budke, LeSueur Minnesota, Apr 15 and May 2, 1907.
Testimonials from Mrs. Williams of Gardiner and Mrs. Sperling of Chicago claim Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured female troubles without surgery. The ad touts the remedy as a 30 year standard for displacements inflammation ulcers and other female ailments.
An Iowa congressman recalls a comic letter from a constituent who believed the department of agriculture had developed seedless tomatoes and asked to receive seeds by return mail, a moment recounted after it appeared in the Boston Herald.
A Panama contractor challenged the laziest worker to step forward, 59 came ahead but one claimed laziness kept him back. The gag plays on the paradox of a lazy man volunteering for an easy job, reflecting a humorous crowd reaction.
A Detroit Tribune anecdote warns against overwatchfulness as a farmer fires a hired hand for seeing too much. The man reports a carriage, gunfire, people named Col Cotton Maj Peters Tom McSniffer, and nineteen pigeons, prompting dismissal.
A tale about Sir Antony MacDonnell who aimed to leave Ireland’s under secretary post after five years. He told Lord Ashbourne that officialism caused most Irish troubles, prompting the astonished lord chancellor to question him. Sir Antony replied that he had said it to a bigger man than him, naming the King.
A London Globe note describes a dinner custom in Norway, Sweden and Denmark where, when guests numbers are uneven, one man offers his arm to another to escort them into dinner. The practice is deemed grotesque by foreigners and said to lack charm or grace.
In a short quip from the Boston Transcript a spectator notes the unusually cool seating arrangement for a hot night. Mrs A sits on the right and Miss B on the left, highlighting a decided chill between them in the audience.
A report outlines Birkeland Eyde nitrogen separation works at Norodden and Rjukan Norway with 34 000 hp power at the first site and a second project to harness at least 250 000 hp. It notes two divisions the hydro electric station and chemical works and mentions machine details and building progress.
The article extols the combined drill and wheel hoe as affordable easy to operate and capable of replacing many laborers. It claims the device saves its cost in the first season and lasts twenty years. It also provides August tips for fruit tree borers with soil digging brushing and a dung lime wash treatment.
A farmer grows rich and builds a ten room house for himself while neglecting his wife and children. When his pride wakes up at last, he finds the family gone and he has only the kitchen to share with his wife. He had housed cattle better than his family all along.
Bees typically supersede aging queens with vigorous replacements to keep colonies strong and productive once an apiary is stocked with high grade queens.
The disk harrow is described as indispensable for up to date farms. It cuts weed roots in place without transplanting them, and with enough horsepower can replace a plow on certain soils, especially in fruit orchards where deep plowing could damage roots.
Experiments at the West Virginia Agricultural Station show feeding grain to pasture cows keeps them in modestly better condition and maintains milk flow, but butter fat gains do not offset grain costs. The finding assumes ample pasture and cows consuming extra grass to replace the grain.
The article states that weeds such as false flax wormseed mustard tumbling mustard wild mustard shepherds purse pepper grass bell mustard corn cockle chickweed dandelion Canada thistle bindweed plantain rough pigweed king head red river weed ragweed and cocklebur can be destroyed by spraying with a 2 or 3 percent copper sulfate solution using about eighty gallons of water per acre.
Mangels grown four years on same land yielded over nine tons of roots and one ton dry matter per acre. In rotation soil yielded thirty four tons roots and four tons dry matter per acre. Suggested stands range from 25 000 to 30 000 mangels rutabagas and hybrid turnips and 40 000 to 60 000 carrots per acre.
A passerby recommends corncob tea as a remedy for calves and colts troubled by scours. Corncobs are chopped, simmered in water, steeped slowly, then the liquid is drained, cooled, and used as a drench for the animals.
A farmer notes that low broad-tired wheels that swap for common ones save effort and time in hay harvest. Also describes a fireproof wood coating recipe using spar, zinc white, water, and silicate of soda for three coats.
Aboriginal coastal fishers of Australia employ slender carved wooden spears to strike at fish from rocks. They study water clarity and fish habits, then thrust the spear with precision into large snappers mullet or other fish, jumping in afterward to retrieve the catch by the gills.
Civil Engineer R. E. Peary whose north pole search has kept him on six years leave may receive the full pay of a commander $4500 annually from May 13 for the remainder of the leave. The new Navy pay act, effective May 18, gives him no special rate, so his income rises from $2600 to $4500 per year until he returns to duties.
A Sunday school teacher asks if the girls want heaven. Ethel answers that they will go to the seashore this summer, echoing a playful remark from Lippincott's.
A Cockney Sportsman cries out after a rabbit dies, while a keeper quips that Bill is no rabbit. The Sketch humorously contrasts rustic bravado with a blunt animal death moment.
Mrs. Mary E. Hart formerly of Los Angeles has become the first person to stake a mining claim on a glacier while it remained active. On a Seattle voyage to the Klondike, Sidney Moise recalled that after nine years passengers landed at Muir Glacier near Skagway for the first time in that period. Hart, experienced in Alaskan mining, placed her claim on a moraine bearing ore, following years of work in multiple mines.
Mrs Thos Dunn of 153 Vine St Columbus Ohio describes ten years of backache leaving her weak and exhausted until Dean's Kidney Pills provided quick relief and a permanent cure. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A west side pastor sees three Sundays of penitent backsliding in his wife’s pew, then the husband reveals he stayed away to avoid his wife’s suspicions. He explains he could not convince her he was living honestly, so he stopped attending church.
A short print advertisement urges use of PET TIT'S EYE SALVE for burning eyes and dizziness and lists Howard Bros. druggists in Buffalo New York as sellers.
Rufus Choate urged a witness to illustrate absent-mindedness. The witness replied with a cautious quip about a man who thought his watch hummed to tell him time. Meanwhile Chicago City Railway completed twelve all steel sprinkling cars for tracks.
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